Evan Miller
Principal UX Designer at EvanArt LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Robert Miller is a Principal UX Designer based in New York with nearly two decades of experience designing responsive, accessible web products that drive business outcomes. He has led PerkSpot’s UX and front-end development through rapid growth—from a 14-person startup to a 160+ employee company—owning brand, marketing, and a high-traffic Discounts Portal with complex features like checkout, maps, and search. Trained in design thinking at MIT Sloan and with a BFA in studio art, he combines visual craft with rigorous UX strategy and hands-on HTML/CSS/JS implementation. Beyond design, Evan is an active open-source contributor and systems-minded engineer, with backend and build/release work on projects such as mdbtools, libxls and OSS-Fuzz that improved compatibility and security for data formats. He also runs a successful art venture, EvanArt, demonstrating a blend of product design, entrepreneurship, and a personal interest in math and stats.
18 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Mastering Design Thinking Certificate, Industrial and Product Design, Mastering Design Thinking Certificate, Industrial and Product Design at MIT Sloan Executive EducationBFA, Studio Art, Art Administration, BFA, Studio Art, Art Administration at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (61)
printing10
print10
gnu-make10
compatible10
c-language10
erlang10
package-management10
api-design10
django10
ip10
databases10
linux10
bash10
build-system10
template-engine10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
ChicagoBoss/ChicagoBoss
May 2010 - Dec 2013
Erlang web MVC, now featuring Comet
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:456 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Evan significantly contributed to the Erlang web MVC framework, focusing on the ErlyDTL templating engine and the database interaction layer. Their work included adding new features and operators to ErlyDTL, implementing pagination in the admin interface, and refactoring the model saving logic to support validation. They also enhanced the database driver, providing support for new data types. In addition, the user implemented a new message queue and a corresponding Comet system.
erlangcometweb-appframeworkweb-mvc
mdbtools/mdbtools
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
MDB Tools - Read Access databases on *nix
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 releases, 8 reviews, 499 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Evan contributed to improving the compatibility of the mdbtools library with various versions of Microsoft Access databases, including Access 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. Their work primarily involved modifying internal code to correctly interpret database file versions, address buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and improve the functionality of the ODBC driver for variable-length fields. The user also enhanced the library's capabilities with the addition of the ILIKE operator.
odbc-driverdatabasesdatabaseaccdbms-access
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